Hosting partner combats the Gumblar virus
Over the last year there has been a substantial increase in the number of sites on the internet that have been hacked due to viruses that steal FTP credentials from user's home computers. The hackers then use these credentials to insert hidden code within your website.
Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumblar for more information on this type of attack.
To reduce the significant threat from these viruses our hosting partner has developed a solution which will make such attacks extremely difficult. The solution is to lock FTP when it's not in use.
Our customers will be able to unlock FTP accounts by either selecting a period of time after which the lock will remain in force, or by nominating an IP address that has permanent FTP access.
These security measures will ensure that the majority of sites have FTP locked, greatly reducing the risk of having our clients' websites infected.
22nd Feb 2010
